New Articles
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For a strategy of independence and mass struggle
Ashley Smith responds to Todd Chretien’s defense of Zohran Mamdani.
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Mamdani’s fight is our fight
Todd Chretien argues that socialists need to find “a useful role inside the Mamdani experiment” instead of issuing warnings from outside.
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Socialism from below
This introduction to socialism from below by Charlie Post was part of Tempest’s 2025 political education series.
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Trump’s Looming “Forever War”
A statement in defense of the people and autonomy of Venezuela against Trump’s imperialism by the United Left Platform.
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Oppose Trump’s surrender plan for Ukraine
Tempest re-publishes the statement of the Ukraine Solidarity Network-U.S. in opposition to the joint Trump/ Putin plan for Ukrainian surrender to Russian imperialism.
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After Mamdani, we still have to fight Trump’s America
The Tempest National Committee argues that, despite the excitement of the Mamdani moment, the Democrats have no answer to Trump’s attacks on the working class.
Recent Articles
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A solidarity message from Canada on the UAW and auto tariffs
A powerful statement to the labor movement and auto workers from Bruce Allen, a former president of Unifor Local 199, opposing Trump’s tariff policies. This was read at one of the twin rallies held on April 26, 2025 in Detroit and across the Canadian border in Windsor, Ontario.
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The fight for democracy, social justice, and equality in the Caucasus
Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews Vano Abramashvili, Maia Barkaia, Ia Eradze, Sopho Verdzueli, who are all members of a new Left organization in the country of Georgia. In the midst of high levels of struggle, including one of largest and most sustained mass protests in their country’s history, socialists in Georgia have come together to form…
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Which Marx? On Colonialism, Uneven Development, and Gender
Sean K. Isaacs reviews Kevin B. Anderson’s The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism
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Real freedom means having no fear
Public defender Pauloma Martinez delivers a May Day call to action at the Queens Criminal Courthouse.
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Rebuilding the left as Germany turns right
In an interview, Martin Haller, the Chief Editor of marx21.de, explains the state of politics in Germany which has simultaneously witnessed: a large rise in support for the far right Alternative for Germany; a new right-led government shattering taboos and preparing to re-arm Germany; and the resurgence of Germany’s Left party (Die Linke).
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Nationalism, workers’ power, and the myth of auto tariffs
Andy Sernatinger argues that Shawn Fain and the UAW’s pro-tariff stance misses the real threats to autoworkers and the role the union can play in resisting these threats.
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Building power now!
Lizartistry has created a new share-able ‘zine that speaks to the disillusionment with electoral politics and offers a vision of how to build political power from the perspective of socialism from below.
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In honor of May Day
On May 1, the day honoring the international working class struggle, the Tempest National Committee calls for labor mobilization and ongoing organizing against the Trump agenda.
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Madness as method
Thomas Hummel argues that Trump’s tariff policy is a desperate gamble to re-establish U.S. world dominance.